Nay, I mean palfry'd knights!—to back me up.
Is this the loyalty of the Table Round?
Were Mordred a worse traitor? or e'en he,
The Midland Knight, who pushes for my place
As he did for Sir Lancelot's? Oh, get out!
What should my dauntless Derby henchmen say
Should I, on Wednesday, show the feather white
And say I'd chucked the sword Excalibur
Away, unchallenged, in a fit of funk?
I lose the sword? I've not yet lost the scabbard!